Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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.‘

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

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

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Like associates with like.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

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.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

My mom and I are very close.

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

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

You make more money if you’re generous.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Money ain’t everything.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.