Sometimes to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.

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.

Every difficulty requires new strategy to overcome it.

A man would never understand the true meaning of life until he becomes comfortable with his true positive self, despite what others might think or say about him.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.