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

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

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 saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.