It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

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.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

Marriage is the death of hope.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Smiles are the language of love.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.