Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

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.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.

O Lord God! What plans do you have for me this year?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.