The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.