The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

Experience teaches only the teachable.