[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

There is no limit to positive affirmations.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

I was and still am happier than a pig in slop.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.