The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

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.

May the Lord grant you grace to read and understand the Holy Scriptures.

You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.

[The Clean Power Plan] is not the all-of-the-above energy strategy needed to boost job creation and reduce energy prices for families.

If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.