That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.