we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands, ' knew Schopenhauer.

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life

It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.

If someone left, mean not your happiness gone surely, Happiness dependant not on others but yourself but be.[223] - 4 (Thoughts)

All the men on my staff can type.

Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

I could have screamed, but I didn’t. I could have fought, but I didn’t. I just lay there and let it happen, watching the winter-white sky go gray above me.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

The person that works the hardest wins.