"Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves."

"In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it."

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."

"Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery."

"Love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."

"Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems."

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."