Read a book, and broaden your perspective on life.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.