We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
People fail forward to success.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.