“The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.”

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”

“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”

“Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.”

“Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.”

“Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.”

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity,' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity?”

“One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simpl...”

“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to dimini...”