It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

The parent of every great and lasting decision is a thought. Therefore, contemplate deeply and thoroughly and then execute.

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.