If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.