“If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.”

“The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.”

“Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!”

“Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to be the same as it was when you were still with her.. or him”

“I like the late Bernard Haldane's definition of an achievement. He says it is: something you yourself feel you have done well, that you also enjoyed doing and felt proud of. In other words you are looking for an accomplishment that gave you two pleasures: enjoyment while doing it, and satisfaction from the outcome. That doesn't mean you may not have sweated as you did it, or hated some parts of the process, but it does mean that basically you enjoyed most of the process. The pleasure was not simply in the outcome, but along the way as well.”

“You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)”

“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”