Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

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

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.