It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

He who hath many friends hath none.

You should never give up your inner self.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I think I have always had a little humor.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

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

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Friends accept you the way you are.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.