Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

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.

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.

Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier.