History never looks like history when you are living through it.

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.

Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic

Use this day to honor the memory of Christmas — whilst it remains celebrated in your life.

In England everyone puts a lot of pressure on you when you have cost a lot of money.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

Love should be our walk and our talk.

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

I learn more with every job and I'm thankful for where I am

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.