This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
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...
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.