Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Disagreement is something normal.

Love is the one wild card.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

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

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

It’s not possible to stop love.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

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

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m no genius.