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.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

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

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

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

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.