"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind."

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

"To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'"

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."

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

"To love truly means recognizing that character is forged in the fires of discipline."