"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"It is a subtle truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."

"This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed."

"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."