You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.