I want what I want! And I want to find what I want in the exact place, at exact time that I want it to be there. And maybe that’s why so many of us go ‘wanting’.

Why in the world am I not finding what I want? It may be that I’m not looking for things where they are to be found. Rather, I’m looking for them in the places where I demand that they be found.

If I demand that I be the captain of my own ship, I’ll probably be spending most of my time in a lifeboat. And if I then demand to be the captain of the lifeboat, I’ll probably be spending all of my time being the lunch of something that doesn’t care that I’m a captain.

The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

I will love or I will hate. And while it might be true that the former will demand everything of me, I can be certain that the latter will take everything from me.

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.

If the road is easy, it’s probably easy because it’s not a road and you’re not on it.

No voice is so loud that it can demand that I listen to it.