"I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life."

“Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”

“We encourage one another in mediocrity.”

“Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have avoided breakdowns if they had acted differently. We tend to see problems as having been created by someone else or by the "economy". It's good to be a little introspective from time to time. Think about how your own behavior might have gotten your company into a problem, and how it may help to get you out.”

“We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.”

“It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

“States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.”

“To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

“Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.”