A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

It’s not possible to stop love.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

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?

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

All mankind love a lover.

If you wished to be loved, love.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

We do not judge the people we love.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.