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.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

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?