Reality is not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us.

"Books are the windows to other cultures."

The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.