Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

The moment you're born you're done for.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.