The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

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.

The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.

I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.