“Books should be closed each year, especially in partnership because frequent accounting makes for long friendship.”

“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

“Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.”

“It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.”

“In industrial marketing settings, the relationship between buyer and seller is frequently long term, close and involving a complex pattern of interaction between and within each company. The marketers' and buyers' task in this case may have more to do with maintaining these relationships than with making a straightforward sale or purchase.”

“In the light of the new knowledge various plausible, but frequently unsatisfying, suggestions put forward, especially by Wallace, Weismann, and their followers, as probable accounts of evolutionary progress, must be finally abandoned.”

“As long as you're afraid of intimacy and spiritual partnership, you won't likely experience it. To have it, you have to share it with each other. Just as there's no I in team, there's no it in independence.”

“Because Johnny was especially clever I think we should make him monitor for the whole week. Don't you?”

“You always think that if you're going to spend seven years on a book, it should be Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses or something, but mine is just a 200-page book that took a long time.”

“Every person is a book, each year a chapter”