Travel is a lot like love.

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.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.

Recite Holy Quran, It is the only way.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.