The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

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

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

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

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.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.