It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

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.

Believe in the strength of your own resolve.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

One must love everything.