To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

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.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Truth, at times is just an accepted opinion

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.