Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

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.

The wolves wait for you, little lamb.

He seemed to think that spanking soled problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.