"I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible."

"The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do."

"Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush."

"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?"

"Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is."

"Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it"

"How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place."

"If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way."

"Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion."

I think it takes 30 years to build

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.

One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.