If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.