The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

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.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.