If I love you, what business is it of yours?

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

The way to know life is to love many things.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Children make your life important.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

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

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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.

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.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.