We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

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.

The Greatest Companionship you have is your Mind... Your Conscience Mind... The one which talks to you ! The only thing you need to make sure is that

Finish Well

Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.

I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing.

When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.