Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.