Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

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

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.