"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."

"It is a enduring truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."

"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."