You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.

I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.

Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

May his body rest free from evil.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.