To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.