Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.