Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.