I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.

Leadership without a following is null and at best loitering

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

Love is the river of life in this world.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.