The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

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.

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

once a kittypet always a kittypet." -longtail

The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .

when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.