"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To dream is to realize that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the only true currency in life is time well spent."