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

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

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.

Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.

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

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