Nancy Gibbs Mean Quotations

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.