Every one fastens where there is gaine.
If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno.
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.