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.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

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

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

God to me is love.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Men want to make women happy.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.