People who are good to each other make each other good.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

Love not your dream but the road leading to it and you might still fail, but you shall definitely end up enjoying every moment of your life.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.

Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.