Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

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?

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.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I really have no interest in myself.

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

Women don’t try to use me.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

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

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I’m not perfect.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

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

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

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.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.