Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss 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.

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

...some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.

You are the books you read!!!

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

If you are afraid of dying then you are afraid of living.

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.