No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Wit is educated insolence.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

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

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

What I like about the jokes, to me it’s a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won’t be funny.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

We do not judge the people we love.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

All mankind love a lover.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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 was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature.

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.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

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

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

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.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

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.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.