Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.

One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

Socialism Is For The People, Not The Socialist.

When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.