Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".

I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

The person that angers you most, teaches you best

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.