Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Love is the one wild card.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

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

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Children always turn to the light.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Life is a song to me.

Nothing recedes like progress.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

We do not judge the people we love.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.