Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.