An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

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.

There is no peace without power.

Before you point fingers at someone, clean them well. You better remove that log on your lens before you can see the speck on someone's own afar!

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. – Joyce Meyer

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.