I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.