All men hate the nagging.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

We do not judge the people we love.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Like associates with like.

What you guys want, I’m for.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

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?

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.