"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."

"We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things."

"'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once."

"What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there."