In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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

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.