The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

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.

Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.

Space is the breath of art.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm.