I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

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.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Speak low, if you speak love.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

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

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.