A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

True friends stab you in the front.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

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

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Speak low, if you speak love.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Love is only one of many passions.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

If you wished to be loved, love.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

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

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I am rather inclined to silence.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

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

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

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.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.