No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.