“Association with women is the basic element of good manners.”

“Some institutions within the market are associated with exchange and contracts in an elemental sense (such as the legal system and the customs which govern the contract)… These would be present even if a formal market did not exist. Other institutions are specifically to do with the development of a market and the coordination of a large number of exchanges in an organized manner.”

“The basic elements that make a person more or less interesting are: intelligence and character.”

“The basic pleasure in the phonetic elements of a language and in the style of their patterns, and then in a higher dimension, pleasure in the association of these word-forms with meanings, is of fundamental importance. This pleasure is quite distinct from the practical knowledge of a language, and not the same as an analytic understanding of its structure. It is simpler, deeper-rooted, and yet more immediate than the enjoyment of literature.”

“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”

“That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.”

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”

“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

“All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.”

“To seek to exclude any of these because of age or association with some particular elements of our national being would almost be an act of treason. In the rich history of our country nothing is good or bad because it is new or old…Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian or Parsi.”