"It is a radiant truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe."

"'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing."

"All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places."

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."

"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."