It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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

We feel and know that we are eternal.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

In every parting there is an image of death.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

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

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.