The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.