It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

We love things we love what they are.

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.

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

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I hate to be smart.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.