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

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.