Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.
With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.
Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.
Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.
To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.
Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.