We fear what we don’t know, or whatever seems like a mystery to us.

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.