Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Love is a learned behavior. If you don’t learn how to love yourself, someone will teach you how to hate yourself.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.