"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"Rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."