The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters." JFK

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water—

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.