All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

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.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.