Author Quotes

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

When you're through changing, you're through.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

With renunciation life begins.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Novels are longer than life.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Lovers should also have their days off.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.