In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too.

No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.