The first thousand are the hardest.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did, in fact, they admired it.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.