You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

All mankind love a lover.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

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. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I’m afraid to fail again.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

In married life three is company and two none.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.