When you become tired of fitting in, is when you truly become yourself
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.