It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.