Remember where you came from.
Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to carry it off.
Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
A man is a god in ruins.
Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life … would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
