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

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

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

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