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.

I won't say that you're pretty because that dog already did. And I won't say you're funny because you have had me laughing since I met you.

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Give away everything you know, one bite at a time.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

For me, reading is reading.

It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.

I'm an affectionate person.