Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.

I like people, and I like to be around people. They are fascinating. I like to behave like a common man. I am a common man.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

I like hugging who I like to hug and I want to be hugged by whom I want to hug.