There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.

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.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

I held her tighter, just because I could. Because she was fierce, and beautiful, and mind.

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.