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

Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

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.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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