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.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

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

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

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Love is an interesting thing.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

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

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

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

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

I supported Donald Trump.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

A person hears only what they understand.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.