"Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days."

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."

"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

"I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

"The real business of life is trying to understand each other."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."