Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.