One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.