What of Art? -It is a malady. –Love? -An Illusion. –Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. –You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. –What are you? -To define is to limit.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one…
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
What’s the good of living if you don’t try a few things?
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
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