What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
A staff can be no better than the man it serves.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.