Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

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.

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.