If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure. '
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.