“The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.”

“I didn't know who I was any longer, so I just was.”

“It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)”

“We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.”

“If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.”

“If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.”

“She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round ...”

“The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather st...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”