Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. – V. S. Naipaul

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper…
When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world. – Fr