in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

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

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.

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

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