All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things.

Usually the person who rises within an organization has a good attitude. The promotions did not give that individual an outstanding attitude, but an outstanding attitude resulted in promotions.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job