Being the first to start or leave does not necessarily mean that you will be the first to finish or arrive. Or that you will finish or arrive.

Hope is fuel, not the destination.

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

Most biographies and autobiographies are each merely a slightly different packaging of the well-known fact that success rarely comes quickly or easily.

The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.

It is almost always better to take a chance and hope that your life will get better instead of ending it.

Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.