Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

What would you do if money was no object?

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.