Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.