Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.