Career is just posh slavery.

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

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed, ' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

It is values that form our decisions.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.

What you are thinking now is creating your future life.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.