The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.