Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

Today words curve around my vision, Stumbling from my parched coreTo soak again those strands of silence.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may be able to follow.