I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

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 spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

It is a time-honored adage that love begats love...cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major.

Were still gonna do those things not because weve got nothing to lose.. were still gonna do them because.. WERE RICH BIATCH!!