A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

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.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

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

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

I always wanted a family.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

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

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.