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.

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

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

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.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.