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.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

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.