The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

To the victor belong the responsibilities.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.