Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.