There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.

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.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.