Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Football is a sad game.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Rap was my drug.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

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

Love can do much, but duty more.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I admire people who destroy themselves.