At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

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.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

Taking time for each other is the key for harmony in the home [and in marriage].

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.