A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

It’s not possible to stop love.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

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.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Power is competence.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

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

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.