One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.