If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Love is only one of many passions.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Who, being loved, is poor?

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

It is always your next move.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I don’t like being alone.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I was adored once too.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

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

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?