"The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making appointments, even the people who were not very nice, the day was always fine."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"Everything is much simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine."

"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

"The first and last thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"The spirit of performance is not a machine. It is a vision."

"People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs."

"To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent."