It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.

When in despair… when in fear… when in doubt… make something.

It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.