"The only orthodox object of the institution..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.”

“Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.”

“There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.”

“If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.”

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.”

“Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.”

“Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.”

“Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.”

“Wherever You Are, Be ThereOne of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.”