It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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

My wife and I love each other very much.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Love is trembling happiness.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Women don’t try to use me.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

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.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

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

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.