"To know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

"It is a timeless truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him."

"Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated."

"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."