The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

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.

Acceptability is that secret, which brings in surrender, Which brings in totality, which brings in love, From where arises our Oneness.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.