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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

You can be passionate about anything.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

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

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

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.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

If you wished to be loved, love.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.