There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I just don’t have time to get old!

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I’ve laid my friends bare.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

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

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

In married life three is company and two none.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.