Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

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.

Her gaze collided with the duke’s. His eyes were a clear, pale green. Why was he staring so intently when there was hardly another woman less interesting than she?

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses – it was made from kitchen curtain material – and people went crazy.

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.

Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.