"Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems."

"Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs."

"Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 鈥檆ause it鈥檚 expected of ya, not 鈥檆ause of anything else."

"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own."

"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."

"Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly."

"Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace."

"MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar."

"Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential."

"The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them."

"We all die. The one thing you share with every mortal is death."