If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

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.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

God loves his children more than any earthly parent, so think what your kindness to his children means to him.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.