The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are.

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WASDISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGHSUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself

i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.

Companies don't succeed, people do.Companies don't fail, people do.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

We work for praise and dawdle once we have it The Neurotic s Notebook 1960

Never mind searching for who you are Search for the person you aspire to be

...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

The harder you try to gain approval from others the more you push them away

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don t care fo