It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.