All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

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.

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.