It changed him. I think once you go down that road of making deals, compromising your ideals to get somewhere, it's easier to do it the next time.

When I saw the campaign ad where Andrea Forrester said, 'Doug never let his family down and he won't let New Jersey down,' all I could think was that Jon did let his family down and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.