There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.