“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”

“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few ...”

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”