Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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 truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.

To fear God is to seek his favour.

Love is the sparkle of life.

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

The US has just consistently tried to ignore Iran. And this is ironic because the Iranians believe that the United States is as obsessed about them as they are about us.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

I am strong, determined, impulsive, happy, and emotional.