Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.