The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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

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

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.