People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
Helplessness is a mighty power.