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.

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.

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.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

I don't need a man in my life.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.