Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

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 feels so right being in love.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.