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

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

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

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.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.