Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.