. . . we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
I don't ever feel a full transition to my character. I don't ever feel like I have left myself, because if I did, I would need professional medical attention. I always have to keep my own wits about me, or I would miss a mark on the floor, or be unable to follow the director's advice from the last take. However, when I'm at my best, I feel like I'm doing an impression of a person I've never met. It feels complete, and yet improvised.
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.