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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

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.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

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

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.