What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? —E. M. Forster
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Good design is good business.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.
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...
Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier
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...