Leaders don't make excuses. They create results
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
The noblest art is that of making others happy
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. . . . We were just very supportive of each other.
Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in book than in magazine publishing. At the time, however, I just didn't feel I was enough: smart enough, savvy enough, well read enough, educated enough, charming enough. Much of this was probably because I was very naive, and didn't really know how to behave in an office. This made me a terrible assistant, which in turn made me a terrible junior book editor.
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.