I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

When in doubt tell the truth.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.