I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?