Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.