There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered.“If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.”“No. Destroy Me.

Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity.

Dew moves mountains.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

See the cat? See the cradle?

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.