If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.

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.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

Destiny cutsthe cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

Remember that other people are as real as you.Other people's feelings are as real as yours.In fact, our feelings are what make us real.

Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.