“For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”

“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.”

“[On meditation] …that's the single most important thing that I do…there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.”

“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”

“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.”

“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.”

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

“The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”

“Give advertising time. That is the thing that it needs most. The advertising agency is the most precious infant among the professions. Is it fair to expect perfection in a profession that counts only a single generation to its credit? We are learning. I see no reason why advertising agencies, too, should not outlive their founders and the successors of their founders, growing wiser with each generation and gathering a priceless possession of recorded experience.”

“There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.”