The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.

For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

I just want to cuddle with my Lion and give him all the love nobody in the world has given him but me.

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.