A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Trust in humanity, she is only in her infancy, she will grow to be great and trustworthy.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

The god is the beautiful.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!