We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

And all this time he was cheating on me! Making a fool out of me! He made me look stupid in front of everyone!

Put yourself in the driver seat by designing the best attitude possible to help you get where you need and want to go.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

Become very comfortable being uncomfortable.

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.