It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

The motive of man is a mystery.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

Every great love starts with a great story.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.