Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

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

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

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