And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit.

When you open your mouth to speak, you reveal a great deal. The words you use and the way you speak are like a blueprint of who you are deep inside.

A true conversation is a co-creation.

People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.