In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Real living is living for others.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli--Clemenza to Rocco in the Godfather (1972)

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'