We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

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.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

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.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Like associates with like.

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

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.