A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I never expect a soldier to think.

I do not know what I think until I write it.