This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

God Almighty hates a quitter.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.