But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere - at all ages and in all conditions of life.

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.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.