The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

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

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.