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

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

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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 only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.