if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth.

Your mind can destroy your life! Mind your mind

Maybe not here and now, but somewhere, someday.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.