Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.