The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

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.

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.

...your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life...that's all the more reason to cherish it...

Actions & statements made on the basis of critical analysis & discernmentare not the same as divisiveness. Know the difference.

In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.