I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

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 answers to all questions of human society are in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible

When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.