We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

You ought to mediate on the Scriptures daily.

Aim for happiness because if you keep looking to reach perfection, you're never going to appreciate anything.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.