"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."

"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."

"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult."

"It is a humble truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good."

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."