Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.

The spirit should never grow old.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.