The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

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 were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.