Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.