If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.