Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

It is not possible to love and be wise.