Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

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.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.