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.

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.

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.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.