Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Only the autodidacts are free.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.