A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.