““Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?”
“Few measure up to my standards, but most try.””

“True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.”

“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”

“His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.”

“As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That’s where I try to spend most of my efforts.”

“There is another and very important ground for standardization and that is the desirability of having parts interchangeable. Standards of exchange have long been in general use, and these have, most usually, been fixed with a view to convenient use rather than on a scientific basis. The units of weight and measure are examples of this form of standard. They may not even be the most logical, or most convenient, but once established they can, in general, be changed only by slow degrees, if at all.”

“The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.”

“Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.”

“When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”

“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”