A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Author: Franz Kafka

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Evil is whatever distracts.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.