Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.