Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.