I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Solutions are not the answer.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I’m very free-spirited.

I always wanted a family.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

My music is a luxury.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

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