The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

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.

Moments give birth to new memories

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

Please challenge me becausewhenever I am challenged, I learn away to survive and a brillianttechnique to fight.

Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.