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

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

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Men want to make women happy.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

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.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.