All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

We do not judge the people we love.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

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.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

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

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

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

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.