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

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

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.

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

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.