The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

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

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

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