Quotes from Diane Keaton

I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new ideas. God knows I want new ideas and new experiences

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is permanent. Nothing can be trusted to be there. Nothing is safe, including home. Why lie to yourself? Every day we leave something, someone, some observation behind.

At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.

Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.

Daniel Wolf's advice—want what you have.

I have assessed my happiness ratio and this is the result. I am totally content whenever the ones I love are happy about something little, big, insignificant, whatever. I just don't think anyone could possibly have the same wonderful, intense, compelling feelings that I have for this family of mine.

I WISH I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO LOVE YOU WITH ALITTLE LESS EFFORT.

No one can predict who is going to touch your heart in a way that changes your very being.

Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

We're all just trying to get through the day.

sibling who doesn't fit in or follow the paths the rest of us take; who challenges and bewilders, upsets and dazzles us; who scares some of us away; but who still loves us, in his or her way.

Compliments linger.

You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.

I carry their beauty inside the very soul of my being. Dark with shades of grey. White with storm clouds in the distance. Because of dad and mom, I am not afraid to dream of dark victories and black beauty. I'm not afraid to be in love with the night