Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

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.

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

Never make a judgment on a one sided story because people may tell you what they want you to hear, rather than what you need to hear.

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.