Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

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.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

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

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

I’m not perfect.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

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

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Children make your life important.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.