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

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

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.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.