'Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Despair is anger with no place to go.
Don't be yourself, be someone a little nicer.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.
If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
It’s easier to part with a friend than an opinion.
Life's most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
Money is the best counterfeit money.
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone--until they do.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
We have to call it ‘freedom.’ Who'd die for ‘a lesser tyranny?’
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting that we have just had one.
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
