As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I can do whatever I want.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Where love is, there God is also.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I love the sea.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.