"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit."

"I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America."