What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Playing it safe might not have hurt anyone, but it wouldn’t have inspired many, either.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

If someone doesn't hate what you're doing - you're not doing very well.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

I didn't change the world.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.