Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I was adored once too.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

My mother did not like children.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

This is not a bad life.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.