"Never underestimate the power of every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'"

"True wisdom begins when you realize character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going."

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."