Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Love is a serious mental disease.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Tell the children the truth.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.