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

“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.”

“am bold and brave! I am excellent, I have an excellent life. I can do all things; I am powerful and influential.”

“Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.”

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

“Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”