Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.