You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.