My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.