John W. Gardner

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!