As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Racism is a disease of white people

It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.