Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. – Hyman Rickover
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy wont. – Hyman Rickover
As a young boy, I read Cheaper by the Dozen and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience. – Ridley Pearson
Theres a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. Theres kind of this temporary deal about marriages. Thats one of the things that makes it stressful, and thats something thats nonexistent in a parent-child relationship. – Jeremy Sisto