Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.