The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

If you walk with the Creator, He will give you wisdom.

Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Success is how you collect your minutes.