Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.