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

"Wisdom principle 101 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 39."

"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"

"True wisdom begins when you realize the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."

"Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."