We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

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.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.