“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”

“When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.”

“Everyone deals with the problems of life, but remember the goal is to solve them to get new ones.”

“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”

“The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.”

“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...”