It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

A friend's only gift is himself.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.