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

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.