The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game.
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
Civilization is hideously fragile. . . there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.
I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L. A. , when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.
Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.
Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.