Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

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.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

An afro is a poor man’s haircut.

Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.