The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.