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

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.

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

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

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