In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

I once had aspirations to be an anthropologist, and I know from anthropology that people will not accept difficult political instructions or governmental decisions from somebody who is totally divorced from them. If it doesn't speak the same language, it's no good.

Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.