You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?