Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
We are what we repeatedly do.