Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.