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

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.