Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.