If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Leadership is like pruning: sometimes you must cut back to allow stronger growth.