Chalkers sat at his desk in the back of the room—last seat, last row. No one sat at the desk next to him or at the one in front of him. He was
Today I am even richer.
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
An affected health has come in contact with worry
Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.