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

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

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.

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

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.