A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

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

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

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

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There is nothing so stable as change.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.