All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

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

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

True friends stab you in the front.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Everybody is entertained to death.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

A friend to all is a friend to none.