One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

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.

Earth without "art" is just "eh

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable.

Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.