"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

"It is a timeless truth that true authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"Wisdom principle 21 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."

"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."