In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

Multitasking is actually a hindrance to productivity. Focus on one thing and get it done.

I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams.

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.

It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.