We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self. CYRIL CONNOLLY

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and one behind. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit. SAMUEL JOHNSON

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? EDWARD YOUNG

Mrs. Vining. In her 1960 book Return to Japan, she wrote: The word humor, according to the Oxford Dictionary, originally meant moisture or juice and only fairly recently, that is to say from the 17th century, came to mean that quality of action, speech, or writing which excites amusement, or the faculty of perceiving what is ludicrous or amusing.

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment. ARTHUR KOESTLER