It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.