It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

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