It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?

To forgive does not mean to condone.

It is but knowledge, putting it into practice, circumspection, fear of God, and sincerity with Him, August and Majestic is He.

So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.