... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.