Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
The most important thing about education is appetite.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
Never let a good crisis go to waste
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.