"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us."

"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box."

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land."

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

"We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise."