A good half of the art of living is resilience.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

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