‘The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.’ — Henry Miller

‘The end of labor is to gain leisure.’ — Aristotle

‘What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.’ — Ellen Glasgow

‘I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.’ — R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Leap, and the net will appear.’ — John Burroughs

‘Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.’ — Iris Murdoch

‘Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.’ — Confucius

‘Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.’ — Oscar Wilde

‘It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.’ — Epicurus

‘A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.’ — Saul Bellow