Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow is immensely rewarding.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

It takes two men to make one brother.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.