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.

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

... 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.

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.

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.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

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Money can't buy happiness. Or put my family back together.

For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.