All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

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

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

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

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.