We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain

I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

The truth is that I am not a frump... I just enjoy being laid back.

You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help.

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.