"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
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