As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

My mother insisted that her children read.

What you are comes to you.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I was adored once too.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

True friends stab you in the front.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

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.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

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

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

We never love a person, but only qualities.