I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

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.

Time, the devourer of all things.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.