It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action