When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

Everything is practice.

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?