You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.