"teachers are explorers, they take us from the known to the unknown"

"in the end success and failure rests with the individual"

"all great countries will rise and sadly someday fall, ours is nothing new under the sun."

"war is only as good as the motive behind it."

"fame without glory is merely vanity"

"there may be a tyrant overseas but there are millions of tyrants over here."

"there is no more sin in the world now than when it began. there is just a bigger range of delivery than before."

"politics are a wicked man's cane, and a rich man's crutch."

"in real life technicalities are irrelevant"

" no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care."