I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.