There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

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

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Be not a slave of words.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

He who hath many friends hath none.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.