[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

I'll give you an idea of what kind of a guy he was. St. Francis would have punched him in the mouth.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them.

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it