If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

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.

Discouragement does not come to passive and indifferent people who lack initiative

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

Our Thoughts have life of its own: Their Birth, Influence and Death happens at our Mind level

In thy foul throat thou liest.

It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.