Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I always felt an outsider.

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‚I never want to be alone.‘ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I don’t like being alone.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Hatred is settled anger.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

He who hath many friends hath none.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

The human heart is the same the world over.

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

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.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.