Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

Wonderful things are possible when you dream big and use your imagination.

What you do today is more important than the things you collect.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

Finally here, Imma star with the timing. My swagger is chill and my flow is reclining.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

I've learned that it's harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that's not me.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.