If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

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.

When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

No one ever swung too slowly.

You have to see yourself as victorious

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.

Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.

Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.