“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in the world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“You may be 38 years old… And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to…

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“You’re not supposed to wish your days away when you’re 90, but this honestly cannot come soon enough.” (Oct. 25, 2016 tweeting on the 2016 election)

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.”