A hospital is no place to be sick.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.