Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

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.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

The best medicine for despair is service.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.