The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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...
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'