The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.