"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"It is a timeless truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."

"But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know."

"History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?"

"To dream is to realize that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

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