Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

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

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

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.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.