“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.”

“Men who never get carried away should be.”

“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.”

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”

“Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.”

“The best vision is insight.”

“By the time we've made it, we've had it.”

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”