Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

My first job at Graham-Newman was to prepare the annual report for that 10th year.