Remember where you came from.
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
Don’t automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn’t considered key aspects of the issue.
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
The way to do well is to do well.
Nature hates calculators.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
