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.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

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

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

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.