PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

Life's only as bad as you make it out to be. It's go nothing to do with the way it is.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.