"Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree."

"In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything."

"If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama."

"It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us."

"True authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a profound truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 52 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 48."

"Wisdom principle 34 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 80."