I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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 don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

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

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

What you are comes to you.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

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

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘