"The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population."

“It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.”

“Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.”

“I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.”

“Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.”

Source : 1981 The White Hotel, author's note.

“The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.”

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”

“When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.”

“When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop.”

Source : Song: The Slop