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

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.

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

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

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.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Learn what you are good at and exploit it in service to others.

Melania Trump's husband tweeted this: "Cher, I don't wear a rug, it's mine, and I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn't work."

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.