That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.

All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

An intelligent organization is not about the “cleverness” of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.

But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.