Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.