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.

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!

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

She did not care what a ludicrous picture she might be painting, a fat happy old lady in her night gown, swinging on a small little swing in the dead of the night.

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.

Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

Open your eyes, whether you presently believe it or not, your life is already abundant. Before you can accept abundance in your life, you have to notice it.