It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.