"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."

"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."