Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less 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.

Positive mindset leads to positive self esteem.

Another person's thoughts about you are outside of your jurisdiction

Whoever makes you feelthat deeply and that intensely, deserves to know how they’veimpacted you.

I already am, I always was, and I still have time to be

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.