"To master the mind is to understand that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Patience is a virtue because the silence between the notes creates the music."

"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"Every sunset is a reminder that the true master is an eternal student."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."