To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

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.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free, ’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

A camel brayed columns from the rondavels

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

I like the idea of company-paid dividends.