A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

I like to look good, my friend.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

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

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

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.

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

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

OVOXO will always be there.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Love is a state of being.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

To be loved is very demoralizing.