The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.