It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

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

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

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

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.