"There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high."

"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."