Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

The best vision is insight.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.