How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

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.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.

The more you give, the more you will have to give.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."