Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

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.

If you can remember me, I will be with you Today, Tomorrow and always.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

If you don't eat right and you don't know how to take care of your body, you're not going to have the energy to do anything wonderful.

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.