Raise expectations to improve performance.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable—this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Nothing is as harmful as expectations.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.