Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

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.

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

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

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