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

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

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

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.