“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”

“Too long I've owed you this apologyFor the apparently unmeaning sorrowYou were afflicted with in those old days.But it was of the essence of the trialYou shouldn't understand it at the time.”

“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”

“We dance round in a ring and suppose,But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”

“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”

“We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”