A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I love being busy.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.