America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.