"It is a essential truth that an idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."