"In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

"Start slow and taper off."

"The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's."

"The perfect host requires the perfect parasite."

"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free."

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

"He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."

"Give death a better name or die trying."

"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."

"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are."