You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?
Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.
[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot.
The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.