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

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

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

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

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

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.