All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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.

Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.