Samuel Johnson

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.