Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.

Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.