I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I never fall in love.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.