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"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."

"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork."

"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'"

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."

"What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men."

"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."

"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

"I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them."

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."

"In my friend, I find a second self."

"A camel is a horse designed by committee."