An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.