The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

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.

Sometimes you have to go upReally high to understand HOW small You Really Are

It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.