"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts."

"There is no substitute for work."

"When everything feels a little less real, life becomes all the more frightening."

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."