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

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.

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

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

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.

Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are.

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.