You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.

Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

It takes two hands to clap.

Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.