Quotes from Paul Hoffman

Get on your feet or die.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

I know everything I know about.

The mere adding of years to life is not living.