Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

You can't lead if no one will follow.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise.

And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play - the most lonesome music that them priests ever in their lives heard. It brought water out o' their teeth, so it did.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

Imitation is flattery

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.