All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.