One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Hell is other people.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Anger cannot be dishonest.