“Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.”

“I was fortunate to attend a school with an excellent library”

“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”

“The “Excellence Standard” is not about Grand Outcomes. In Zenlike terms, all we have is today. If the day’s work cannot be assessed as Excellent, then the oceanic overall goal of Excellence has not been advanced. Period.”

“Excellent. They were flammable.”

“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”