Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.