Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.