"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference."

"It is a profound truth that the seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it."

"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."

"Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them."

"They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots."