Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

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 instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being.

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.