"An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard."

“I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.”

“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.”

“I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.”

“Build a little community of those you love and who love you”

“Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.”

“Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.”

“I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.”

“A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.”

Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen , Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 113, 1985.