History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.