We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.