It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

It's the old headpiece that makes a man, the rest is all rubbish.

I said I was "just tired", but I never told you what I was tired of.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.

You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

Food is a great way of communicating.

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.