Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.