Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

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.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

When you start to question you are part of the problem.

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

When we love - we grow