I never fall in love.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Who, being loved, is poor?

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

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.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Men must know their limitations.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

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.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.