True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

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.

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.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Trust in your own self more than in all else.

At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.

Well my chocolate is so good I could sell it in an obnoxious prism shape.

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.