The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

Must being in love always mean being in pain?