I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

My friends are my estate.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

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.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

We do not judge the people we love.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

People want to feel hopeful.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.