You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.