Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.