The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.