If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

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.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.