We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

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.

If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.

Steampunk is Victorian science fiction

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.