By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them