"We are all prisoners of our own making, trapped by the stories we tell ourselves."

Every story is a mirror of its time.

The teacher should not teach as if he were pouring knowledge into an empty vessel, but rather as if he were lighting a fire.

The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

The strength of liberal democracy lies in its ability to self-correct and reform.