I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

You can’t do something forever.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

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

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

All you need is love.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.