The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.