"It is a essential truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman."

"Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter."

"You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”"

"As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."