“A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything in a person’s life.”
“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ”
“How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?”
“Elizabeth feared that because of her looks, she was doomed to meet men with unreasonably high self-images and no depth, the kind that dogged movie actresses and models. Men who were superficial to begin with, and existentially boring in that which they sought, and thus ultimately unsatisfying and unworthy of respect of interest.”
“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.”