The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

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.

Foolishness is not a lack of resources, it's the lack of wisdom.

Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments." -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.