Hyman Rickover

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.