"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

"There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage."

"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others."

"Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."

"The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts."

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness."