There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.

I'll get it, " said Jough in his man-of-the-house voice, a full octave lower than his regular voice.

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.

If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.

I love going into a country and just blending.

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

To know and not to do is not yet to know.