The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

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