Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.