I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

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.

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

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

I’m an absolutely normal guy.

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

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I’m very free-spirited.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

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.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

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.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

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

Understanding is a two-way street.

Your friend is your needs answered.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I don’t care about money.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Live dangerously and you live right.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.