Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

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

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Friends are thieves of time.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

I dote on his very absence.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

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

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Fear is exciting for me.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I don’t like being alone.