Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work yet getting the work done.

A smart man makes a mistake learns from it and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that and I hope that with the job I'm in now they are if not proud at least unembarrassed by it. I must say my three are most agreeable children who do nothing but delight me.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason for it implies that the world and the course of human history have meaning.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.