If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.