People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.