I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.