We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.