The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

The books we read in childhood are like a secret garden, a place where we can escape and dream.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its triumph.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government," and as such constituted the "end of history."

The mind is an active, dynamic process, not a passive receptacle.

做出伟大工作的唯一方法是热爱你所做的事情。