"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"We will not have peace by afterthought."

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out."