Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

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.

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

Everything is awesome... Everything is cool when you're a part of a team.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.