Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.