History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.