What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

...everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.