The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection

She was a professional. A professional who didn’t need five inches of makeup and f*ck-me cleavage to do her job.

I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.