The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Pure love’ means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

We have not the time to take our time.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.