The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

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.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.

Never judge a situation merely with a negative perspective. Look at the positive side too, ” he added. “And if you do that, you will eventually feel better.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.