It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.

You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.

I think women should always be respected. I'm not going to stand on the corner with a picket sign, but I'm going to support my ladies all the way. But I also understand the views of men as well.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

America's government has to get the public investments right.