People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

My life is a reading list.

I couldn't face being in a comfort zoneBecause when I was in your zone, I'd find comfort

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Dealing with race is about educating white folks.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.