I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

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.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Lost time is never found again.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

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

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

In married life three is company and two none.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

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

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

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.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.