A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I don’t like being alone.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I always wanted to be loved.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.