Practical wisdom, " Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece." Ray Mancini.

Love doesn't measure that way... you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

You're Beautiful! (Pass it on).

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.