Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

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

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.

Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.