“Your dreams are your solid rock; all other dreams are sinking sands! Recreate Your World and I believe you can!”

“Instead of trying to be great, be part of something greater than yourself.”

“No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.”

“There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.”

“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”

“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.”

“Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.”

“Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of--something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat's side? Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All the things that have ever deeply possesed your soul have been but hints of it--tantalizing glimspes, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest--if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself--you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.' We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the things we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work. While we are, this is. If we lose this, we lose all.”

“No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.”

“Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.”

“Create and preserve the image of your choice.”

“There can be no freedom without order, and there is no order without virtue. Now, that’s a simple enough formulation, but it’s an insight found not only in the writings of Founding Fathers like Washington or great political thinkers like Edmund Burke; it is also found in a great part of our Judeo-Christian tradition.”

“Conventional wisdom would say that the less you give, the more you have. The converse is true. The more you give, the more you have.”

“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”

“Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults.”