You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
A joke's a very serious thing.