All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.