"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology."

"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people."

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."

"Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."

"He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg."

"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket."

"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others."

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

"Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites."

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

"Opportunity comes when you continually push forward."

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "