When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.