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

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

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

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

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

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.