In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.