Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.