Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

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

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.