The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.