Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

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.

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

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.