God is what's good in me.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
Touch water in the West and you touch everything.
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.