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.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.