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

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

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

One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.