There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Every single time you looked at me, through the corner of your eye and smiled. My heart pushed the ribs with all the force towards my lungs, until it got crushed and I could not breathe anymore.

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.

What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked.Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.