Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.