Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

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

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

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.