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

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.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.