When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

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.

Once alone stop learning, it is also the time when death is imminent.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.