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.

If you wished to be loved, love.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I write all of my own speeches.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.