I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.