Everything you do - with or without an audience - provides evidence to you about who you are and what you're capable of.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The problem comes from people who are experts in their fields not understanding that not everyone has the same level of expertise or understanding. It’s why some great sporting stars make lousy coaches and why some mediocre players make great coaches.

I write every day, without hope or despair.

The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The way I found that works for me is I theme my days. On Monday, at both companies, I focus on management and running the company… Tuesday is focused on product. Wednesday is focused on marketing and communications and growth. Thursday is focused on developers and partnerships. Friday is focused on the company and the culture and recruiting. Saturday I take off, I hike. Sunday is reflection, feedback, strategy, and getting ready for the week.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.

Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930):

1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.
4. When you desire power, examine yourself closely as to why you deserve it.
5. When you have power, use it to build up people, not to constrict them.
6. Do not attempt to live without vanity, since this is impossible, but choose the right audience from which to seek admiration.
7. Do not think of yourself as a wholly self-contained unit.
8. Be reliable.
9. Be just.
10. Be good-natured.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

• Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
• Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye?
• Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
• Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
• Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

M.A.S.H

We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.