We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

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

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Never find fault with the absent.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

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

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

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

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

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.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.