No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.