What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.