Clearly,’ said Arthur, ‘you’re an idiot – but you’re our kind of idiot. Come on.
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
If you caress me one more time, you will melt the butter on my toast.
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.
It is always healthy to be honest.
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...
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...