To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

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.

It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.