Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.