A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted. " As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.
I'm not very firey, but when I go, I go. I don't shout, I just get upset.
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.