Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

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.

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?

Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly!

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.