In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Love is a serious mental disease.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Friends accept you the way you are.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I don’t like being alone.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Beauty and folly are old companions.