For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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.