Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.

One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.