Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.