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

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

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.

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

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

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

In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent