Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Love can do much, but duty more.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

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