What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

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 pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.

Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out.

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?