The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know—not just because humility is a virtue but because until one adopts that mindset, the most striking breakthroughs cannot occur.

I usually say what Ireally think. A great mistake nowadays, it makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

I don't let the darkness dim my light.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.