Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.