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.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

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.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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.

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

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

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

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Intimates are predestined.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

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

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.