Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.