We Pay A Heavy Price

The Play Of Conflicting Interests In A Framework Of Shared Purposes Is The Drama Of A Free Society. It Is A Robust Exercise, And Often A Noisy One. It Is Not For The Faint-hearted, Or The Tidy-minded.

Some People Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them. Very Few Have Excellence Thrust Upon Them.

To Sensible Men, Every Day Is A Day Of Reckoning.

We Pay A Heavy Price For Our Fear Of Failure. It Is A Powerful Obstacle To Growth. It Assures The Progressive Narrowing Of The Personality And Prevents Exploration And Experimentation. 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.

In The United States, To An Unprecedented Degree, The Individual's Social Role Has Come To Be Determined Not By Who He Is But By What He Can Accomplish.