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

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

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

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.