The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

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.

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.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

‎"...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλη αξία από εκείνη που τους δίνει η φαντασία μας

Love! In the midst of ugliness, you're my beauty.

Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid, " answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.

Currently, there is no cure for MS, but there are treatments that modify disease activity, slow the course of the disease, and alleviate its effects.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Deliver total quality to every customer every day.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.