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.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

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

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.