The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

(I should mention I attended a Christian elementary school where “my dad’s hermeneutic can beat up your dad’s hermeneutic” served as legit schoolyard banter.)

Forgiveness in no way requires you to trust the one you forgive. It doesn't mean the relationship must be restored. p. 61

We are all the same. Only our thoughts are slightly different.

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?