The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.