It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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Without music life would be a mistake.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.