"Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything."

“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.”

“For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.”

“The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.”

“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.”

“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”

“Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfilment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.”