Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

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.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

I got Twitter like two months ago, checked it out a bit more, and I concluded the only thing Twitter I'm interested in following is Nick Stoller.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

The Long Way HomeWhy is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.