You can’t be a writer unless you’re a reader first.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

The essence of business is to solve problems, not just to make money.

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.