I enjoy learning about different periods and people and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are certain things unite everybody.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

We have treated our most serious adversaries such as Iran and North Korea in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing we have weakened not strengthened our bargaining position and our leadership.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts their talents their insights their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

There is a universal intelligent life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.