"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"It is a steadfast truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel."

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."

"What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others."

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"