Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.