Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.

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.

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.

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.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

I wish you the beast of luck!

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

Don't let high-speed completely replace high-touch. Your customers may appreciate both.

Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm... she had dimples of iron.