“Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.”

“I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”

“What a man knows isn’t important. It’s what he is that counts”

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”

“There is no end to the story. Isn’t it amazing that something is really, really important one moment, and then minutes later it has lost all importance? What happened? It seems like it’s gone away. It’s been diffused. Amazing.”

“Sometimes we listen with different ears and sometimes we see with different eyes. The messenger isn’t what’s important – it’s the message they carry.”