Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like what they like more than they don't like what they don't like and, in contrast, those who don't like what they don't like more than they like what they like.