"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."

"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."

"I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady."

"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."