"It is a subtle truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."

"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time."

"With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much."

"If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business."

"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."