Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.