We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

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.

Confronting a liar makes a better liar.

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.

Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.

Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

I've seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I'd love to know how he kept all his projects going at once.