Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.