You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.