One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
You cannot know what you cannot feel.
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
