One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

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.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Friends are thieves of time.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

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.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Great loves too must be endured.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

All you need is love.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

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