A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

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

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

It’s not possible to stop love.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

My mother did not like children.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

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.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

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

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

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.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

I was adored once too.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

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

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.