Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

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.

Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're "decoding

Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that mayprevent a man from becoming God’s representative on earth

The thing is - any author on the internet doesn't weigh nearly enough as an author in the real world.

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.