Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way.

The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.

We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.

Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.

Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Build my night with your cheeks.

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.