An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

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

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

My friends, there are no friends.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

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.

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

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.