“I’d rather die on my feet, than live up on my knees.”

Your attitude determines your altitude.

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing.

We must not allow any clock to run down.

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job.