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

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.