Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

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.

There is a sort of mental treasonThat smothers dreams outside of reason

Never misuse your God-given opportunities, it may be the path to fulfilling your destiny.

Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.