Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Genius is a long impatience.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Keepthings 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

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.