The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

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

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.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.