I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

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 world can move or not by changing some words.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

Today I share my abundance with someone who needs a gift of kindness.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives.