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.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

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