Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.