A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

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

You can’t trust very many people.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

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

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.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Single life is so overrated.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.