Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.
’Tis a gross error, held in schools,, That Fortune always favours fools.
Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.
