A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

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

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

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.

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

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.