The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

I have seen the future, and it works.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.