Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

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.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Take a chance on me and I will prove how worthy your life is.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.