"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the pursuit of truth is a lifelong endeavor."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos."

"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."

"So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place."