Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves "I'm confident" or "I'm doing well." But then, in a moment alone at home, you feel how close you are to some kind of abyss.

Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.George SaundersThe Bookseller

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.