Quotes
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
We live on the leash of our senses.
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.