The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.