She had a lot of business savvy and also a deep conviction that books could intervene when American culture was in crisis.

A lot of the traditional business books are still struggling. It is a crowded cluster of magazines of which there are some underperformers. So it is a curiosity.

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

We were finding our conviction about the advertising business.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.