Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.