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We tend to become like those whom we admire.

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

I tend to leave people alone that I admire.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Many admire, few know.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.