It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

Hell is—other people!

The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.

To argue with reality is to argue with God

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.