The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I’m not a playwright.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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?

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

We are wiser than we know.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

We moralize among ruins.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I think I have always had a little humor.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.