Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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.

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

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.

When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you.

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

She wanted to savor him slowly like a lemon cream pie on a lazy summer day. One bite at a time.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

In America, we will have a government of, by and for the people.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.