"It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"