The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I’m no genius.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

My whole life is a theater piece.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

I got my own back.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

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

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

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.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?