True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

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.

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!

Intuition is already in contact with Existence. Intuition is already in contact with that, which is larger than ourselves.

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

We can all learn to live jubilantly. We can all learn to alter our attitudes so that we can better realize our dreams.

I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great?

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.