“Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.”

“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”

“Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options”

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”

“We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.”

“Go where we may, rest where we will,Eternal London haunts us still.”

“While we must always begin from where we are, we need not stay where we are.”