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

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

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

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

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

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength.

I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

It feels good to come here and be a winning program.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.