John W. Gardner

"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."

"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."