We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.