There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

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.

Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....

We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.