Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

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

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

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.