Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

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.

We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?

In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.

When you empower your people, your business will be grow.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Success begins to chase us when we begin chasing our passions.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.