No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.