Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

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

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

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.

Your attitude is a mirror of your believes.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

Confidence is sexy. So if you're confident in who you are, that's sexier than anything.

If you're going to be a great guide to what's great for consumers, and, indirectly, for investors, you've got to be very careful about who you contract with and what you're offering.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

A big question that we have is that we do not understand why the comfort of the few should override the comfort of the many.