In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

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

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.