A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

The happiest people are not those who have the best things, but those who enjoy the life and get the most of it with what they have.

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.