“If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.”

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

With the press there is no ‘off the record.’

Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.

Remember where you came from.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

What i really wanted was the impossible.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?