Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.

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.

It’s not how long you live that matters, it’s how well you live.

I'm dead?""That body is... yes.

She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.