I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.