There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.
The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.
Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.