Love is a state of being.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I’m not a bad person.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Marriage is the death of hope.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

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.

I’m nobody, who are you?

My friends are my estate.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.