There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read more

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, read more

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just read more

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and read more

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with read more

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve read more

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.

Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.