My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I have goals.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

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

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Success is the child of audacity.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

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.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I always make my dreams into goals.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

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

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.