Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

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