We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...

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.

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Donald Trump is a bully who thrives on division.

The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.