You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

I love my country, not my government.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

You can never truly become great if you do not discover your purpose in life.

No man his the master of his fate.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.