Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Meet everyone with utmost respect and heartfelt love. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, POET 2013– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In the end it's not about how many breaths you took. In the end it's about the moments that took your breath away.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.