If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

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.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

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.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

Competition is a sin.

My first win feels better than a draw!

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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.

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

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.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

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

They do not love that do not show their love.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

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

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.