I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

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.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I mean, families are weird.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

I let the American people down.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I am just one human being.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.