So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.