As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods—food, clothing, tools—for their own use.
Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.
Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.