I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Fear is exciting for me.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

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.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.