Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is to work your life away only to realise later that you never really did live

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.