Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

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.

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.