"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a quiet truth that a leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew."

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends."

"In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long."