Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.