Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.
We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.
My best life advice:Take the high road. No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road. You will never regret it.
I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. . . . I would hold a door for anyone. . . . It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.
Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.
Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.